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Marshall Building
Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Buildings Era: 1900-1909 DateCreated: 1906 207 E. Buffalo Street Milwaukee State: WI Zip: 53202 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Marshall-Building/ Creator: Turner, Claude

Designed by Claude A. P. Turner, a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction, the Marshall Building was constructed originally in 1906 as a five-story building. In 1911 the sixth floor of the building was added as per Turner's original design. This building is the oldest extant example of Turner's "mushroom" flat-slab system which transformed the design and construction of reinforced-concrete floors worldwide.

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2002
Image Credit: Courtesy ASCE Image Caption: Marshall Building Era_date_from: 1906
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Marshall Building

Designed by Claude A. P. Turner, a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction, the Marshall Building was constructed originally in 1906 as a five-story building. In 1911 the sixth floor of the building was added as per Turner's original design. This building is the oldest extant example of…

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